Decorative window shutter



Feb. 18, 1964 e. L. JOHNSON DECORATIVE WINDOW SHUTTER Original Fi ledOct. 12, 1960 i iii;

2 INVENTOR.

60) 4- J0 v.90 mum AND ,4 T roe/v5) United States Patent 3,l2i,4$1DECGEEATIVE WENDGW Guy L. Johnson, 997 Jennings, nan Antonio, Tex.(Iontinuation of appiication Ser. No. 62,3d'7, @ct. ll2, 196%. Thisapplication June 18, 1262, Set. filo. 2%,ji6

This invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or forthe United States Government for governmental purposes without paymentto me of any royalty thereon.

This invention relates to decorative window shutters and is useful toreplace present wood shutters where decayed or when repair or paintingis required. 6n new construction where permanency, freedom from repairand painting, combined with a decorative effect, is desired, the shutterof this invention fulfills a need in the construction industry.

It is customary to provide new houses with decorative blinds, orshutters which are fastened permanently to the outside walls of thehouse and painted a contrasting color. it is frequently necessary inolder houses to take ed the original shutters and either leave them offpermanently or repair and repaint them. it is seldom that the shuttersare rehung so that they can be left open or closed but they are usuallyfastened permanently to the wall and are used merely for decoration.Most of the shutters now on houses, both old and new, are of wood andeventually decay and must be repaired and repainted. Even if some usemetal frames they are subject to rust and are unattractive and requirefrequent painting.

It is an object of this invention to provide a shutter which will notdecay or rust, will never need repair, maintenance or painting, whichcan be made colorful and attractive and add to the decoration of thebuilding.

It is a further object to provide shutters which can be easily andcheaply manufactured of conventional, currently available materials.

Briefly, the invention is a frame of channeled aluminum, or somenon-corrosive metal, with slats or panels out from asbestos sidingshingles dropped in the channels to form a louvered elfect. As can beeasily seen the combination of colors in such a shutter is limited onlyby the colors obtainable in asbestos siding shingles and the generaleffect can be varied by using slats or panels of different widths aswell as different colors.

The above and still other objects, advantages and features of myinvention will become apparent upon consideration of the followingdetailed description of em bodiments thereof, especially when taken inconjunction with the following drawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is a view of the side of a house showing a window with ashutter made according to this invention alongside the window; and

FIGURE 2 is a sectional view showing an additional embodiment of theshutter and which illustrates how the slats of asbestos shingles areplaced in the aluminum frame.

In the figures 10 represents a window in a house and 12 is a shutter,which is the subject of this invention, hung alongside it. The numerals14, 16 and 18 represent the side rails, the bottom rail and the top railrespectively of the frame of the shutter, each being made of "icechanneled aluminum or some non-corrosive metal. The channel in the siderails 14 is wide enough to accommodate at least two thicknesses of theasbestos shingle slats 22 while the bottom and top rails, 16 and 18,have chan nels Wide enough to admit at least two thicknesses of the saidslats and have an outside dimension which fits inside the side rails i4.Increasing the width of the chan nels allows for an increase in theangle at which the louvers are presented to a viewer. The slats orpanels 22 are cut from asbestos siding shingles of any width and colorto suit the artistic sense of the designer and of a length to fit in theframe of the shutter 12. A bottom slat is then placed in the bottom rail16- with a filler or fillers 23 of the same material as the slat and thesaid rail is piaced in the side rails 14 and riveted in place withrivets The slats are then placed in the channels of the side rails 14with the bottom edges of the said slats biased frontwardly to form alouver effect. When the channels of the side rails are filled the lengthof the top louvers is adjusted unless already foreshortened and the toprail is put in place, riveted by rivets 2i and the shutter is read-y forhanging in place. This can be done either by using common window screenhangers 24 or more permanently by screwing through screw holes 26.

it is obvious that this simple invention fills a need for inexpensive,permanent and attractive decorative window shutter which can be used forreplacement of old as Well as for new construction. FIGURE 1 illustratesthe use of the shutter with variable heights for the louvers 22 whileFIGURE 2 has equal louver heights.

This invention constitutes a continuation of application Serial No.62,397, filed October 12, 1960', now abandoned.

it is to be understood that the above described arrangement andembodiment is merely illustrative of the appli cations of the principlesof the invention. Other arr-ange ments may be devised by those skilledin the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim is:

A weather proof window shutter having a rectangular frame comprising twochanneled side rails, the openings of said channels being mutuallyopposed, a channeled top rail and a channeled bottom rail, said railsbeing of non-corrosive material and having their openings mutuallyopposed, said top and bottom rails being of an overall thickness to fitwithin the channels of said side rails, a plurality of flat panels ofrelative incompressible asbestos material, each panel having a thicknessless than the width of said channels, said panels being arrangedtransversely to said side rails and angled from one of the sides of saidside rails toward the other of the sides of said side rails in apartially overlapped relationship such that a louvered effect isproduced with the bottom of said panels biased frontwardly, said panelsbeing wedged in position by said side rails, top rail and bottom rail,and spacing means supported in the channel of said bottom rail forbiasing the bottom of the bottom-most panel toward the other of thesides of said side rails.

References fitted in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS309,024 Bristol et a1. .Dec. 9, 1884 472,592 Swartz Apr. 12, 18921,459,538 Klatt June 19, 1923 2,289,469 Turner July 14, 1942

